Argument Quote by Thomas Sowell

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

— William Howard Taft

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

— James Madison

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

— Ronald Reagan

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

— Chuck Hagel

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the…

— Ludwig von Mises

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be…

— Fred Woodworth

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will…

— Jefferson Davis

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and…

— James F. Cooper

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

— Edmund Burke

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple…

— Thomas Paine